Iniscealtra National School

Mountshannon Co. Clare

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News April 2016

Remembering 1916
On Friday 22nd
April, Mountshannon school held its 1916 Rememberence day. The event
began with an interdenomitional service in the catholic church. In
attendance were Fr John Jones PP and Rev Gary Paulsen from the Church
of Ireland. Prayers were said for the welfare of our nation for the
victims of 1916.Also a number of poems by the leaders of 1916 were
read. These included 'The Mother' by Padraig Pearse and 'I see his
blood upon the Rose' by Joseph Mary Plunkett
After the service a large
group of pupils, parents and grandparents assembled in the front lawn
of the school for the Flag Raising cermony. Caoibhe Whelan gave a
beautiful rendition of 'Grace'.
Patsy Donnellan and Tony
Muggivan read the 1916 Proclamation following which Ronan Dooley,
Ronan Bugler and Eoin Dooley read the 2016 Proclamation composed by
the children at school.
Then Pakie Dooley, assisted
by his three grandchildren, Harry, Jack and Ryan raised the tricolour
in front of the school.
Following the cermony a most
pleasant garden party was held at the school.

First
Communion
The children of second class
will celebrate the sacrament of First Communion on Saturday May 28th.
There are seven boys in the class and they are looking forward very
much to the day. First Confessions took place on Thursday April 28th
in St Caimins church, Mountshannon.

Bank
of Ireland Enterprise Town
This event took place
recently over two days at Scariff Community College hall on Friday,
Saturday 22nd and 23rd April.
On the second day,
Mountshannon school was invited to display some large pieces of art
work made by the children and parents.The works show the beauty and
attractions of Mountshannon as well as depiciting the Mountshannon
Oak tree, the Whitetailed Sea Eagles and the legacy from the 1916
Rising as noted by the children. The art work was greatly admired by
the large attendance in Scariff and added greatly to the spectacle
which the Enterprize Town event was.

Active
Pupils
The children from third to
sixth classes have been taking swimming lessons in Shannon pool since
the Easter break. These have been greatly enjoyed by the pupils and
have enabled the children to learn to swim or improve their existing
standard.
The younger children have
not been left out either as all the other classes have had special
activities delivered by RK Sports in the school

Hurling-Camogie
Iniscealtra and Lakyle are
this year amalgamated in the schools hurling and camogie
Championship.
On Thursday May 5th,
the schools played in their first match as a joint team when they
took on and defeated Ogonnelloe in Dr Stuart Park. Both schools look
forward to good competitions ahead

Soccer
The school took part in the
5-a-side soccer tournament in Lee's Rd Ennis in April entering a boys
team. Drawn in a group of four teams in the preliminary round, the
boys were excellent and secured three wins out of three to finish at
the top of the table. In the second round they were drawn against one
of the other group winners. This game resulted in another convincing
win for Mountshannon.
They were now in the Quarter
final and were drawn against East Clare neighbours, Flagmount.
It was a closly fought
contest and level at three goals each approaching the end of the game
. A free taken by Flagmountwas deflected into the Mountshannon goal
to put them ahead and there was not time to recover as the referee
straight away blew the final whistle.
Flagmount, to their credit,
went on to win the entire tournament. Congratulations to our boys on
a brilliant preformance.
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